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Survivors of Past Terrorist Attacks
Say They Deserve Some Money, Too

By

Lucette Lagnado Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated March 11, 2002 12:01 a.m. ET

Nachum Sosonkin sways when he walks, and when he talks he sometimes slurs his words. Eight years ago, a terrorist ambushed him and other Orthodox Jewish students as they rode across the Brooklyn Bridge in a van.

Ari Halberstam died because of the attack, and Mr. Sosonkin was left disabled, with a bullet lodged deep in his brain. But here is what he strains to say with as much clarity as he can muster: "What is the difference...